Originally Posted by spencermang

it's a lot less accessible, but i enjoy the earlier stuff more because of that. prospect hummer is excellent. i think it's by far their best work, thanks a lot to vashti bunyan.

i think it's maybe all similar enough that if you like strawberry jam a lot, you'd probably dig all of their older stuff with some effort. you'll get a lot more of the hypnotic droning repititions than in the newer stuff, and even in songs like "#1", where this beautiful melody just comes running out of the monotonous intro, you won't find that a lot in the older stuff. instead it just keeps moaning and moaning and then before you know it you're listening to something that sounds completely different than you were five minutes ago, but you have no idea when anything changed.